New globe sculpture planned for Cleethorpes Prom
It comes on the back of the success of Hammy The Haddock
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A new globe sculpture will be installed on Cleethorpes North Prom
A new recycling sculpture is set to join Hammy the Haddock in helping keep Cleethorpes beach clean and plastic free. Following the success of Hammy the Haddock, the giant plastic bottle recycling sculpture on Cleethorpes Central Promenade, North East Lincolnshire Council has again teamed up with Grimsby-based Blackrow Engineering and several other sponsors to bring a new feature to the resort.
The new sculpture is a 2m tall stainless-steel globe, which like Hammy, will be a giant recycling bin for plastic bottles.
March 15, 2021 Share
February 2, 2021, marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, in Ramsar, Iran. The day is also celebrated annually as the World Wetlands Day. The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is the intergovernmental treaty that provides the framework for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.
The contracting parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands recognise the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands as regulators of water regimes and as habitats supporting a characteristic flora and fauna and that wetlands constitute a resource of great economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value, the loss of which would be irreparable.
The East African
Friday March 12 2021
A wetland. The encroached Malagarasi-Moyovosi wetland in Kigoma, Tanzania, covers over nine million hectares. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
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Owing to its size and importance to the ecosystem, the basin has been designated as a site of international importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetland.
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Over 100 families of herders and farmers from neighbouring countries have encroached on Malagarasi-Moyovosi wetland in Kasulu District, according to Tanzania authorities in the western region of Kigoma.
The wetland, which covers over nine million hectares encompassing five rivers and riparian wetlands, is the largest drainage system into Lake Tanganyika.
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Encroachers ravage protected wetlands
Encroachers ravage protected wetlands
A KEY wetland protected by international conventions within Kilombero Valley is under threat due to unchecked human activity, an ecologist has declared.
Presenting a strategic view of the conservation and protection of water resources in nine basins countrywide here yesterday, Asukile Kajuni, an ecologist with GEO Network Ltd consulting firm, said that overgrazing, artisanal mining and agriculture are now commonplace within the Kilombero Valley Ramsar Site (KVRS).
A Ramsar site is a wetland area designated to be of international importance under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands. Kajuni described the area as immensely important to the nation and to the world due to its precious wetlands resources and ever-dependable rivers – enriching the soils and making the lands more fertile for agriculture.